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Nursing Home Characteristics and COVID-19 Outcomes: The Evidence is Mixed

By | December 17, 2021
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COVID-19 has severely affected nursing homes. As of now, over 139,270 residents and 2,155 nursing home staff have died from COVID-19. This post provides insight on the questions researchers are asking to understand the impact of nursing facility factors on COVID-19. A Perfect Storm The combination of a frail, aging population, close living quarters, and… Read More »

Going Outside the Box: Identification of Active Diagnoses in the MDS 3.0

By | March 7, 2017
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In an effort to improve the validity and person-centeredness of the nursing home resident assessment tool (the Minimum Data Set, or MDS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services introduced version 3.0 in October 2010. As a result, many of the measures and items health services researchers had grown accustomed to using in the MDS… Read More »